Q: How can businesses be more LGBTQIA+ inclusive? I was at a conference recently for Diversity and Inclusion Leaders where this very question was raised. Me, being the rebel I am, threw a lesser discussed question to the panel… Q: How can businesses be more trans inclusive? The two questions are subtly different. All subsets of the LGBTQIA+ community have different needs and require different approaches to inclusion. Inclusion of sexual orientation may look different than inclusion for gender identity.
One of the questions I am asked all of the time is; "what is trans".Well... that is a big conversation, but the long and short of it is that "Trans" means is from the Latin and means "on the other side of" whilst "cis" means "on the same side of". So both cis and trans are an antonyms paring. A non-trans person is cis.
